Safety Of Touch ID Scanner Iphones

How safe is the IPhones Touch ID scanner?




What are you so sure? Using your fingerprint to lock their devices like the Iphone? Well according to the hackers of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), you may want to reconsider what kind of security. From The hacker in the CCC have hacked IPhone Touch ID scanner and scary part of what we are able to bypass security with a simple picture of a fingerprint.


A team of hackers have shown how a synthetic fingerprint can be created from photographs of the target public and is used to unlock your smartphone -

The Chaos Computer Club, the largest association of hackers in Europe, using publicly available software to create an exact VeriFinger fingerprint German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen from photos taken of her in a press conference.

This could be used to produce a synthetic finger to unlock a smart phone that belongs to von der Leyen. Although this is not the first time a fingerprint scanner smartphone, as used by the iPhone 6 and Samsung Galaxy S5, have been deceived by a synthetic digit previous hacks only worked with access to a fingerprint of the goal, as in a glass or screen of the phone itself.

Developing (YouTube video, in German) at the annual convention of the club in Hamburg 31 per member Jan Krissler - also known by his alias Starbug - the highlights of the method how biometric security should not be seen as an infallible method protect a smartphone, computer or something like a high-security vault.

The method of the CCC takes this step, though obviously access the phone still required to enter it with artificial thumb.

Last year, the CCC revealed that fingerprint scanner Touch ID used by iPhone 5s could be hacked with a synthetic media, and only two days after the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus went on sale this year, the researcher Security Marc Rogers found the new models are also hackable.

". Has not unfortunately been little in the way of measurable improvement in the sensor between these two devices fake fingerprints created using my prior art were able to easily deceive both devices," Rogers said in a blog, adding: "By Moreover there are no additional settings to help users tighten security as the ability to set a timeout for TouchID after an access code must be entered. "